Tuesday Oct 20, 2026 (seminar venue at Tampere University and schedule TBA)
Keynote speaker: Mark Galeotti (Honorary Professor, UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies): Is Russia a Prisoner of Its History?
Jussi Lassila (Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of Foreign Affairs): Fascism in Russia — Past and Present
Kaarina Aitamurto (Senior Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki): Islamophobia and Antisemitism in Russia
Salla Nazarenko (International Affairs Specialist, The Union of Journalists in Finland): Are There Human Rights in Russia?
Antti Rautiainen (Independent scholar): Anarchy Forever!
Commentator: Tuomas Forsberg (Professor of International Relations, Tampere University)
Moderator: Sanna Turoma (Professor of Russian language and culture, Tampere University)
The event will mark the publication of a forthcoming book Aatteiden Venäjä: ideoiden ja aktivismin historiaa [Russian Ideas: Histories of Activism and Ideologies] (eds. S. Turoma, V. Oittinen, M. Perkiömäki, Gaudeamus, Oct 2026).
You can get from Helsinki to Tampere by train in about an hour. Tampere University is located near the train station. More information on the pre-conference event will follow.
TBA in September.
TBA in September.
TBA in September.